The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg analyzes the recent deal struck between Governor Schwarzenegger and the League of Cities, lamenting that the deal fails to include the reform necessary to fix the system.

June 3 - The Metro Investment Report

In hard economic times, Detroit cannot afford at $1 billion conventiion center.

June 3 - The Detroit News

Before the developers came, Bunker Hill was an impoverished but proud and thriving community.

June 3 - The Los Angeles Times

Observers say it is part of a larger pateern of "atomization of America".

June 3 - The Washington Post

Even though retirement money is pouring into the inner-city for retail development, the risk may still outweigh the gain.

June 3 - Business Week

Macomb County's new $15 millio-dollar recreation center is part of a new trend towards large recreation facilities.

June 3 - The Detroit News

Neal Peirce discusses how cities with faltering economies can benefit from immigration.

June 3 - The Washington Post Writers Group

Once home to 20,000 Jews, the North Bund of Shanghai is facing the pressure of an expanding metropolis. Two developers are battling over how much of the historic district to save.

June 3 - The San Francisco Chronicle

BLOG POST

San Francisco - We've got a newish mayor here in SF, Gavin Newsom, who worried some of the town's liberal voting block when he beat a fellow county supervisor, Matt Gonzalez, to win the top spot. Gonzalez was a Green, way left; Newsom was perceived to be allied with the city's establishment, specifically the politically efficient machine built by former mayor Willie Brown (term-limited out) and a group always referred to in the press as "downtown developers." As far as I can tell, these are the people who want to build tall buildings.

June 2 - Anonymous

Once a commercial dinosaur, the shopping center gets a new lease on life from redevelopment, reinvestment, and a rebounding economy.

June 2 - The Indianapolis Star

Shanghai's plan to move 500,000 people into 'Disneyland developments.'

June 2 - The Guardian Unlimited

Jay Stark of the Phoenix Realty Group elaborates on the promise of workforce housing development in neighborhood revitalization.

June 2 - The Planning Report

Community involvement is the defining difference at lively, pretty neighborhood parks around the city, from Cliveden in lower Mount Airy to Carroll in West Philadelphia, from Jerome Brown Park in Tioga to Three Bears in Center City.

June 2 - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tom Nielsen, of the Great Park Conservancy, reflects on the lost opportunity for an El Toro Airport and the future vision for the former military base.

June 2 - The Planning Report

How people with long commutes add weight.

June 2 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Environmental activists and residents of Owens Valley look forward to the planned revival of a 65-mile stretch of river.

June 2 - The Washington Post

Author of "Asphalt Nation" Jane Holtz Kay says the times they are a-changing for America's car culture.

June 2 - The Los Angeles Times

While it's no match for Japan's 'bullet' trains, Caltrain's new service does offer fewer stops and shorter commute times.

June 2 - The San Francisco Chronicle

How do Americans living in Europe adjust to living without a car?

June 2 - Pittsburgh Post Gazette

Wal Mart decides not to build Northern Michigan supercenter.

June 1 - The Detroit News